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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., in Rochester, NY. You’re crazy.”

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